{"id":194631,"date":"2024-08-16T09:23:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T14:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/this-researcher-wants-to-replace-your-brain-little-by-little"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T14:23:50","slug":"this-researcher-wants-to-replace-your-brain-little-by-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/this-researcher-wants-to-replace-your-brain-little-by-little","title":{"rendered":"This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-researcher-wants-to-replace-your-brain-little-by-little.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A US agency pursuing moonshot health breakthroughs has hired a researcher advocating an extremely radical plan for defeating death.<\/p>\n<p>His idea?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scholz is still skeptical though. \u201cA new brain is not going to be a popular item,\u201d he says. \u201cThe surgical element of it is going to be very severe, no matter how you slice it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, H\u00e9bert\u2019s ideas appear to have gotten a huge endorsement from the US government. H\u00e9bert told <em>MIT<\/em> <em>Technology Review<\/em> that he had proposed a $110 million project to ARPA-H to prove his ideas in monkeys and other animals, and that the government \u201cdidn\u2019t blink\u201d at the figure.<\/p>\n<p>ARPA-H confirmed this week that it had hired H\u00e9bert as a program manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US agency pursuing moonshot health breakthroughs has hired a researcher advocating an extremely radical plan for defeating death. His idea? Scholz is still skeptical though. \u201cA new brain is not going to be a popular item,\u201d he says. \u201cThe surgical element of it is going to be very severe, no matter how you slice [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}